1. Two times a week, we go to a nice restaurant, have a little beverage, good food and companionship. She goes on Tuesdays, I go on Fridays. 2. We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas. 3. I take my wife everywhere..... but she keeps finding her way back. 4. I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary. "Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!" she said. So I suggested the kitchen. 5. We always hold hands. If I let go, s...
1. Two times a week, we go to a nice restaurant, have a little beverage, good food and companionship. She goes on Tuesdays, I go on Fridays. 2. We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas. 3. I take my wife everywhere..... but she keeps finding her way back. 4. I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary. "Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!" she said. So I suggested the kitchen. 5. We always hold hands. If I let go, s...
Paris today was a disaster. The demonstrations against new employment laws today by peaceful activists were, as usual, taken over by thugs. It seems that every demonstration in Europe or the UK is an excuse for thugs to take control (witness the scenes photographed in Saturday's Daily Mail). Hooligans are graphically caught on camera mugging and robbing innocent passers-by and peaceful demonstrators. No demonstration is complete without the hard, and out-numbering, mobs who see these event...
Norman Kember came home to the UK today after being held hostage in Iraq for four months. I presume his two Canadian co-hostages are safe and sound as well. Their names elude me at present as the news coverage in England is so besotted with Kember's return that no mention of Canadian names has emerged. I'll check on CNN and BBC World. One of their group, Tom Fox, an American, was killed, and this brings home to me the fact that any Do-gooders who go into Iraq to "help the people" should ca...
Do you know some secrets to a perfect marriage? I actually think that there is no perfect marriage (how could there be when we mortals are so full of faults?) However, I deign to give advice and ask for comment. My wife and I have been married for 35 years. There are things that we disagree about and things that irritate us about one another. In fact we get into such heated disagreements that ornaments fly! However there are positive points about our marriage (this is so personal bu...
I watched President Hugo Chavez on TV this morning. His "George Bush is a donkey" speech is a slur on honest Venezuelans. Like a decrepit Cuban gardener, he stood in casual wear with a backdrop of the garden he tends. I cannot blame him for his lack of English but I can tell him that many Venezuelans (they of the "correctness" class), must have cringed beyond a pale palor. Here wasa President of a country acting like a bloody fool. Perhaps he should have sung a song too? What about Tingale...
"Phishing" is, I believe, a spam e-mail with ulterior motives. Correct me, JU bloggers,if I err, but a "phishing" mail is an attempt to get information from a person by using less than honest credentials (In short: bullshit). Most of these mails try to get people to cough up address or bank details. They are quite common and they are becoming very blatant (apart from being a pain in the ass!). Here are some I received over the past month: --From: arkal@hotmail.ru Sir, I am a senior ...
A man went into a bullring to fight a dangerous bull. He had heard that the bull was very dangerous. The bull was actually more timid than he thought and he quickly killed the bull. This was watched (on the other side of the fence), by another bull who had a lot of friends. The other bull and his friends, attracted by the lack of caring being given to the cows, attacked the man and soon overran the bullring. The man had a choice: leave the bullring or stay and fight the bull and his friends. ...
I am doing some research on a book about the Soul. Unlike many other tomes on this subject I want to stay clear of making religion the defining or governing theme where the Soul is concerned. I say this because, although I am a Christian, I believe a) religion often clouds the issue and , there are many good people out there who will agree that you do not need a religion (or attend church), to have a Soul. (should I say a good Soul to make everyone comfortable? I think not). Obviously r...
I am surprisedand disappointed by the Serbian grief over the death of Slobodan Milosevic. This man was a modern Hitler who thought he could use his immense power to bring about ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia. The outpouring of grief by Serbs justifies my belief that the other Serbian war criminals (Mladic and Karadic) are being hidden and protected. Those Serbs who are paying their condolences to Milosevic will eventually realise the heinous deeds of a butcher when one of their ilk (namely...
The African Union Force wasa good idea. It was first mooted by President Obasanju of Nigeria and President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa. This peacekeeping army of soldiers from members of the AU was meant to be a cause for good in those African countries that needed help, whether it was to quell warring factions or provide succour to the needy displaced masses. The problem with the AU is that there are too few troops on the ground; they are un-motivated; they lack an understanding of th...
Allow me a few seconds of Patriotic pride. The South African film, Tsotsi, won an oscar! Director Gavin Hood deserves praise and congratulations for bringing kudos to my country. And of course, our beautiful lass Charlize Theron was there too. They may have voted her worst-dressed woman at the Oscars but they can say what they like. She is ours(!) and we love and admire her. Charlize won an oscar for Monster two years ago. She is a mega-star and she is proudly South African. Hooray for...
Serbia has an appointment with the EU. The country wishes to join the Economic Community but is apparently refusing to assist with the arrests of two war criminals namely Ratco Mladic and Radovan Karadzic. The EU is getting itchy about this situation but they are not ruling Serbia totally out of eligibility to join--they are simply putting roadblocks in place. Conditionality of membership hinges on these criminals being handed over to the Hague. The Times of London reports that " The stepping...
I started smoking at 17, just after I left school. Smoking was fashionable in 1964 and we all puffed away in cinemas and restaurants and at work. When I think about it now I wonder how people put up with all that smoke! This dreadful habit was acceptable then because it was an age of freedom, of pot, of good music, of outrageous habits. The oldies will remember. I'm still smoking 40 years later and I'm ashamed. I put it down to stress (plenty of that in a big school if you're the head h...
I try to lead my life along certain guidelines. Not because I want to be perfect or have a clear conscience. The rules I live by have been formed by my life experience. It has taken almost sixty years to realise that I am basically a mammal with an advanced brain ---and I need to explore that brain to improve my life and that of those around me. I have sinned (if you can call it that), by hurting people, by being selfish and by being unfeeling. I have provoked turmoil, unhappiness and ins...